because ladies are marvelous

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Ready for halfamoon? It's a celebration of women in fandom that runs from Febrary 1st-14th and I've never yet managed to catch it live. This year I'm working on a batch of Marvel Ladies icons - ladies from the Marvel films, 100 icons so far and I've only covered three films. Um, oops? (I'm having fun. Discovered when iconing screencaps of Peggy in Captain America that when she's being badass with a gun she has red nail polish on, hadn't noticed that before.)

I did do a bunch of Ladies recs for International Woman's Day last year. I feel the urge to do another, either for halfamoon or International Woman's Day again. Because of fics like sugar_fey's Conversation Over Tea and frea_o's The Bechdel Test. And because 'Women Being Awesome' is a tag on AO3 and I love that.

Other ladies things I've spotted recently: there's a multifandom women comment ficathon and a heroinebigbang happening, and I recently read an interesting post from YA author Sarah Rees Brennan on ladies in writing. If that's a bit too rage inducing, try her Real Lady Sleuths post as well or instead - I love that one, and I went back and reread it. Not tempted? Allow me to share two snippets from that:

When World War II started, her friends begged her to come home. Lee Miller instead became a photojournalist and correspondent for Vogue, and thus one of the first female war correspondents of World War II. Her pictures of the concentration camps are famous. In 1945, just after Hitler died and after a long day photographing Dachau, Lee Miller was photographed by the Life magazine correspondent, naked in Hitler’s bathtub, with her combat boots and army uniform beside her.

and

GESTAPO: BRING US NANCY WAKE! THE WHITE MOUSE IS OUR MOST WANTED CRIMINAL! WE WILL GIVE YOU FIVE MILLION FRANCS!
FRANCE: That is like twice as much as you’d pay for any of the dudes.
GESTAPO: Seems about right.

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I didn't read all of it but I will when I get home and have a little more focus, I promise. If you do sign up, we can be like jogging partners and nag at each other to finish the fics! 15k minimum should be fun. Muhaha.

So "takes the mick" is a phrase I did not understand at all the first time I saw it (which was in Harry Potter), but now that I do, I'm kind of beside myself with pride that somebody used it to describe part of one of my stories. *sage nod*

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I am not very good at being a nagging partner :( I get absorbed into the other person's thinky thoughts, or if I get behind on mine I feel guilty about nagging the other person and fail to nag. Encouragement for encouragement's sake I can do though :)

Heh, taking the mick/mickey, naff, and mithering are all things I've been ? at over online *grins*. My word learned from Harry Potter? Alas. I am the only person my friends know who uses it in texts, heh.